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Kazuyoshi Akaba

PEP · Politician

Kazuyoshi Akaba is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	AKABA Kazuyoshi · AKazuyoshi Akaba · Akaba Kazujosi · Kazuyoshi Akaba · Кадзуёси Акаба · 3 more...				[sources]
Alias	Kazuyoshi Akaba · Акаба, Кадзуёси · あかばかずよし · 赤羽一嘉君 · 赤羽一嘉 · 1 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1958-05-07				[sources]
Place of birth	Shinjuku				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Kazuyoshi				[sources]
Last name	Akaba				[sources]
Political association	CRA · Komeito · New Frontier Party				[sources]
Website	www.akaba-now.com · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6381788				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (2019-2021) · Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan · member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2017-)				[sources]
Education	Keio University				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-30	Last processed	2026-04-30	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Japanese politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Shūgiin	-	-
member of the House of Representatives of Japan	2017-10-22	-

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories350,779

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons282,564

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Japanese House of Representatives Members466

Current members of the Japanese House of Representatives (Shūgiin), the lower house of the National Diet of Japan.

Japan · Shūgiin

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,464

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata337,028

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions545,253

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-e67c0c7d-2986-4ed4-a73b-aae6b41edda2 · jp-shu-f83e7c678145deba41aa5e1d9bbd8e7b05ff1b93 · jp-shu-b39cd3c659a44f0d51ecad9eab399c676316c69b

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